How do you use "git --bare init" repository?
git, git-bare
Solution
Firstly, just to check, you need to change into the directory you've created before running `git init --bare`. Also, it's conventional to give bare repositories the extension `.git`. So you can do
git init --bare test_repo.git
For Git versions < 1.8 you would do
mkdir test_repo.git
cd test_repo.git
git --bare init
To answer your later questions, bare repositories (by definition) don't have a working tree attached to them, so you can't easily add files to them as you would in a normal non-bare repository (e.g. with `git add <file>` and a subsequent `git commit`.)
You almost always update a bare repository by pushing to it (using `git push`) from another repository.
Note that in this case you'll need to first allow people to push to your repository. When inside `test_repo.git`, do
git config receive.denyCurrentBranch ignore
Community edit
git init --bare --shared=group
As commented by prasanthv, this is what you want if you are doing this at work, rather than for a private home project.
Problem
I need to create a central Git repository but I'm a little confused... I have created a bare repository (in my git server, machine 2) with: ``` $ mkdir test_repo $ git --bare init ``` Now I need to push files from my local repository (machine 1) to the bare repository (machine 2). I have access to machine 2 by SSH. The thing is that I think I don't understand the concept of a bare repository... What is the right way of storing my code in the bare repository? How can I push changes from my local repository to the bare repository? Is the right way of having a central repository to have a bare repository? I'm a little confused with this subject. Please give me a clue on this.